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Start with a fresh installation
Start with a fresh installation of Windows.
Adjust your performance & power options.
Ensure good USB management.
Kill greedy background apps.
Optimize your hard drives.
Optimize the performance of your audio interface.
It’s every producer’s worst nightmare. You’re putting the finishing touches on that dense mix with loads of tracks, VSTs, and plugins only for playback to be ruined by pops, glitches, and dropouts from your PC. But hold off on financing that expensive new machine prematurely, because with a bit of digging into the backend of your system and some spring cleaning, there’s every chance you can get your PC back in the game. In this article, we're going to show you step-by-step how to optimize your PC for music production.
Hitting the limitations of your machine can be a painful feeling, but many musicians - and most general users - never fully utilize the desktop machines they already have. When that bloated, tired PC stops performing, many users assume it’s beyond saving and a new one is required. But speaking from personal experience, we’ve had the same music production PC for coming up to ten years now, and it’s still performing just as well as the day we got it. Why? Because we regularly clean, update, and maintain it.
So if you want to bring your PC back to life, or just make sure you’re taking the best possible care of a new machine, you’re in the right place. A lot of these tips will work on laptops for music production too, so any Windows user can benefit here. We'll be using our trusty desktop running Windows 10 64-bit, with an Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 16GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. Let’s get started…
1. START WITH A FRESH INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS
Probably the most powerful method of sprucing up your PC, a fresh installation will do wonders for any machine whether it’s two or ten years old. We’re not talking about one of those half-baked ‘resets’ either. We mean a full-on reinstall, proper scorched earth treatment. Delete everything! Of course, you should be sure to back up all your important project files first because once you perform this process there's no way of getting them back.
Doing a clean installation is a long haul as you’ll have to reinstall your programs again but trust us, the effort is worth it. Just don’t do it before you’ve got a big project deadline. We do a clean install on a yearly basis, taking a day out to give everything a total refresh, which is likely why our current PC has lasted so long. By getting rid of all the accumulated detritus your computer has picked up from the internet, installed programs, and downloaded files, you’ll free up valuable hard drive space as well as get rid of any malware running in the background and harvesting precious resources away from your music-making.
The best way to do this is to perform a clean reinstall of Windows using installation media. You’ll need a USB drive to do it, and for someone performing a reinstall for the first time it can be quite daunting, but it’s one of those things that will come so easily after you’ve plowed through it. You can find the details of how to do this on the Microsoft support site, so just follow those instructions to get your PC feeling squeaky clean again.
2. ADJUST YOUR PERFORMANCE & POWER OPTIONS
Once you’ve freshly installed Windows and re-installed your software, you can look to optimizing your PC settings for music production. The first step is looking at the performance and power options that will ensure all your system's resources are geared in the right direction. To make life easier for you here, first search ‘Control Panel’ in the start menu, and in the top right hit the ‘View by’ button and set it to ‘Large icons.
Change control panel to large icons
(Image credit: Future/Matt McCracken)
Now we’re going to adjust some of the PC's performance parameters to get a more efficient Windows experience. Go into your Start Menu and search ‘Advanced system settings’ and then in the ‘Advanced’ tab under the ‘Performance’ section hit the ‘Settings’ button. You’ll want to adjust the following settings:
#afrobeat
#mixing #hiphop #music #production
#beats #afrobeatinstrumental
Adjust your performance & power options.
Ensure good USB management.
Kill greedy background apps.
Optimize your hard drives.
Optimize the performance of your audio interface.
It’s every producer’s worst nightmare. You’re putting the finishing touches on that dense mix with loads of tracks, VSTs, and plugins only for playback to be ruined by pops, glitches, and dropouts from your PC. But hold off on financing that expensive new machine prematurely, because with a bit of digging into the backend of your system and some spring cleaning, there’s every chance you can get your PC back in the game. In this article, we're going to show you step-by-step how to optimize your PC for music production.
Hitting the limitations of your machine can be a painful feeling, but many musicians - and most general users - never fully utilize the desktop machines they already have. When that bloated, tired PC stops performing, many users assume it’s beyond saving and a new one is required. But speaking from personal experience, we’ve had the same music production PC for coming up to ten years now, and it’s still performing just as well as the day we got it. Why? Because we regularly clean, update, and maintain it.
So if you want to bring your PC back to life, or just make sure you’re taking the best possible care of a new machine, you’re in the right place. A lot of these tips will work on laptops for music production too, so any Windows user can benefit here. We'll be using our trusty desktop running Windows 10 64-bit, with an Intel Core i7-4790K CPU @ 4.00GHz, 16GB RAM, and an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970. Let’s get started…
1. START WITH A FRESH INSTALLATION OF WINDOWS
Probably the most powerful method of sprucing up your PC, a fresh installation will do wonders for any machine whether it’s two or ten years old. We’re not talking about one of those half-baked ‘resets’ either. We mean a full-on reinstall, proper scorched earth treatment. Delete everything! Of course, you should be sure to back up all your important project files first because once you perform this process there's no way of getting them back.
Doing a clean installation is a long haul as you’ll have to reinstall your programs again but trust us, the effort is worth it. Just don’t do it before you’ve got a big project deadline. We do a clean install on a yearly basis, taking a day out to give everything a total refresh, which is likely why our current PC has lasted so long. By getting rid of all the accumulated detritus your computer has picked up from the internet, installed programs, and downloaded files, you’ll free up valuable hard drive space as well as get rid of any malware running in the background and harvesting precious resources away from your music-making.
The best way to do this is to perform a clean reinstall of Windows using installation media. You’ll need a USB drive to do it, and for someone performing a reinstall for the first time it can be quite daunting, but it’s one of those things that will come so easily after you’ve plowed through it. You can find the details of how to do this on the Microsoft support site, so just follow those instructions to get your PC feeling squeaky clean again.
2. ADJUST YOUR PERFORMANCE & POWER OPTIONS
Once you’ve freshly installed Windows and re-installed your software, you can look to optimizing your PC settings for music production. The first step is looking at the performance and power options that will ensure all your system's resources are geared in the right direction. To make life easier for you here, first search ‘Control Panel’ in the start menu, and in the top right hit the ‘View by’ button and set it to ‘Large icons.
Change control panel to large icons
(Image credit: Future/Matt McCracken)
Now we’re going to adjust some of the PC's performance parameters to get a more efficient Windows experience. Go into your Start Menu and search ‘Advanced system settings’ and then in the ‘Advanced’ tab under the ‘Performance’ section hit the ‘Settings’ button. You’ll want to adjust the following settings:
#afrobeat
#mixing #hiphop #music #production
#beats #afrobeatinstrumental
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